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Peep My Planner

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. The kind that use the a weekly calendar/planner and the kind that use a monthly calendar/planner. I used to be a monthly kind of girl. I didn’t want a monthly calendar by itself because I like the thickness that a weekly planner brought. I didn’t want a weekly planner because I felt wasteful not using the weekly pages and only using the monthly pages. I tried logging workouts, food, and then just repeating my events from the monthly. None of that was working for me!

Thanks to a friend, I found out that you could order an Erin Condren notebook with a monthly calendar insert. I immediately jumped in and ordered one! It was so fun picking out my cover. I dedicatedly tracked my package and when it finally arrived, it felt like Christmas morning!

After browsing Erin Condren planner images, I began noticing how other people used the weekly pages. I started to see that with blogging and TpT, I could have been using my pages like that all this time! I spent the day whipping up my OWN vertical weekly pages. I used this video to see how to insert my own pages. It actually ended up being easy, but time-consuming. In the future, I’ll know to just order the weekly pages from EC. But, I am glad to know I can actually use the weekly portion from now on. Lesson learned!

So here you have my pages BEFORE I figured out that this can be kinda like scrapbooking … but BETTER b/c I can look at it every.single.day.

And here are my pages NOW! I had so much fun adding stickers and washi tape. Now I doubt I’ll be doing all this in the school year, but it was a fun hands-on creative project for the summer! :) I use mostly pencil when writing in my planner, mainly because if something changes, I can erase. I don’t like crossing things out! I’m a nerd that way.

Now since my book is a planner AND a notebook, I made dividers and added some stick-on tabs for the notebook section. These pages will be where I write TpT/blog ideas, to-do lists, notes, school thoughts, and of course, doodles! I will probably be sticking a lot of post-its in here, too.

I’ve also included a quote to remind me to SMILE even when I’m stressed and busy :)

I also grabbed this super cute pink box to store all my stickers/tape/decorating stuff so that it didn’t take over my desk dining room table. Let’s just say, hubby was glad when I bought the box and got the “crafty stuff” off his side of the workspace.

We will see how long this whole thing lasts… :)

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Oh my, that July spread is perfect! It’s gorgeous! I love that you made it work for you. I tried having a personal planner, but I just don’t seem to need one. During the school year I use my lesson planner and just write down side notes that I need to remember, During the summer, I just don’t have that much to plan. I’m kid free so I don’t have a lot of stuff to keep up with. I love that you made your planner work for you though!

OMG you are just like me and don’t like to cross things off. You can still have fabulous color though!!!! I am obsessed with frixion erasable pens. They are not like the old pens that would smudge when erased. These erase with no smudging and they come in a ton of colors. I live in Canada so can only get them at Walmart or Amazon but I am sure you can get them more places. They are my all time favourite thing!!!
Cheers,
Terri

I LOVE your July monthly layout! I’m the same way about not wanting to cross off things that get changed- I usually write things on a sticky note unless I know they are happening for sure. Still I have a few things that get changed after I’ve written them permanently into my planner and then I end up using white out… My friends think I’m crazy LOL. Thanks for sharing!http://caldwellorganizedchaos.blogspot.com/

STAMPS! OMG so you punched all those holes and snapped it all in? You are patient!!! It is a bit like crafting though- very therapeutic! Have a great week! Can’t wait to see you in Vegas! WP looks good on the Adventure Blog!